"The works that I create are the narrators of my innermost core, and sometimes I make them bound by love, and sometimes I make them bound by lust, and sometimes I make them bound by terror. Many times they make themselves through some ancient song that only my bones and blood can hear. All that I do know is if I cannot create, the noise within me becomes deafening, and I can no longer hear my own heartbeat. So I choose liquid heat as my main medium, and workin gwith molten glass is like dancing with magma right out of the earth. It is hot and it is dangerous, and someetimes it feels like you are making love with the very essence of creation. For me glass is a metaphor for life. It has become the perfect material for my expression, and it is an extraordinary sensuous act when I am working it hot. Yet there is that crazy kamikaze aspect of it - it feels like all or nothing. And that is how I like to operate, even though sometimes it is a dangerous way to live, celebrating life through fire." - artist statement

Education
1985 Sheridan College, Glass
1979 McGill University
1975 Dawson College, Literature and Languages
1973 National Art School of Cubanacan, Havana Cuba


Selected Collections
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Wisconsin
Claridge Collection, Montreal
Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Espace Verre, Permanent Collection
Indusmin, Toronto, Ontario
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
OCC Permanent Collection
Pilchuck Permanent Collection, Stanwood WA
Royal Bank of Canada Collection, Toronto
Skydome Glass Collection, Toronto
University of Iowa Hospital Collection, Iowa City
Whitco Corporation